Making a Difference through Environmental Sustainability

We make our greatest societal impact in collaboration with our clients. We are deeply committed to making a difference in helping communities thrive by prioritizing our social impact and sustainability agendas. We seek to drive impact in climate and environment, global development, global health, and education.

Our work is closely aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. We have built the business case for climate action, helped reform public health systems, and forged a path to education reform for more than 2 million students in India.

Internally, we are committed to evolving our own business practices to make a difference in society, to protect our planet, and to empower our people.

BCG 2019 Making a Difference Report

Our Annual Sustainability Report details the steps we have taken—both through our client work and through the transformation of our own operations—to address important societal and environmental challenges in 2019 and to help shape a brighter future.

Helping Our Clients Deliver Total Societal Impact

It is no longer enough for businesses to view their social contributions through the lens of traditional corporate social responsibility. Stakeholders—including customers, employees, and investors alike—increasingly expect a more fundamental and intrinsic commitment to sustainability. We help clients use total societal impact, a new lens for strategy that focuses on mobilizing the full scale of a company’s assets, resources, and people to maximize their positive societal impact.

BCG investments have enabled almost $2 billion in consulting on social impact in the past ten years.

We work with about half of our firms’ largest clients on social impact projects, delivering over 700 social impact projects in 2019.

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Shaping the Global Agenda

BCG’s ground-breaking research and thought leadership amplify our societal impact. By helping companies make a difference in solving global challenges, and by sharing insights across sectors, we are helping to shape the global agenda.

This work culminated in our 2017 introduction of total societal impact, a new lens for strategy that focuses on mobilizing the full scale of a company’s assets, resources, and people to maximize their positive societal impact through business innovations that deliver comprehensive and systemic solutions to the world’s biggest problems.

We are committed to working with companies making a difference in the environment. Recently, in partnership with the World Economic Forum, BCG released a new study titled The Net Zero Challenge: Fast-Forward to Decisive Climate Action. This report assesses progress by corporations, governments, and civil society since the 2015 Paris Accord.

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Evolving Our Own Actions

In addition to helping companies make a difference, we are determined to do our part as best we can to build a sustainable and inclusive future.

BCG’S NET ZERO COMMITMENT, SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

While we expect to have the biggest climate impact through our client work, we know that we must also walk the talk by reducing the negative impact of our own footprint as quickly as we can. BCG will have a net-zero climate impact by 2030.

Our initial focus will go toward reducing our footprint in line with our reduction targets. To neutralize the climate impact of our remaining footprint, we will remove carbon from the atmosphere by scaling investments in carbon removal projects and technologies. We are committed to continuously reviewing and adjusting our actions to achieve maximum climate impact according to the latest available guidance.

BCG’s Net-Zero Pledge

Empowering Our People

Our ability to attract and retain the best talent from all backgrounds—to fully reflect the diverse world in which we live and work—is fundamental to our success in helping clients make a difference. We prioritize our people with sustained investments in talent acquisition, learning and development, diversity and inclusion, employee well-being, and safety and security.

Promoting Responsible Business Practices

Dedication to responsible and ethical practices defines BCG’s approach to business. We are committed to making a difference in climate change and the environment. We also want to be a business making a difference in the community. We strive to transform business and society for the better, both in collaboration with clients and in our own operations, guided by our values and purpose. Our commitment to responsible business practices extends to our partners and suppliers through our Supplier Code of Conduct.

BCG is a participant in the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) and has made a public commitment to adhere to the UNGC’s ten principles on human rights, labor, environment, and anticorruption.

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BCG Awarded Leadership Status in 2020 Sustainability Benchmarks

CDP Climate Disclosure

BCG is proud to have achieved an A- rating in the 2020 CDP Climate Disclosure, placing in the top 14% of companies assessed by CDP. CDP’s global environmental disclosure scoring system is recognized as the gold standard of corporate climate transparency¹.

EcoVadis Sustainability Rating

BCG is honored to have received a Gold rating from EcoVadis, placing in the top 5% of companies assessed by EcoVadis. EcoVadis is the world’s largest and most trusted provider of business sustainability ratings, creating a global network of more than 65,000 rated companies.